[GRASSLIST:2789] Re: mailing list for beginners

[Richard Greenwood]

I would not worry about a beginners list just yet. I have found everyone 
on this list to be very helpful, and tolerant of novice questions. If at 
sometime in the future the volume of traffic on this list became too 
large, then your suggestion would be logical. But in the mean time, do 
not hesitate to post beginner questions. Maybe some of us "intermediate" 
users will be able to answer your questions, and in so doing, contribute 
something back to the GRASS community and show our appreciation for the 
help we have received in the past from the "expert" members of the list.

Rich

samuel cavalcante wrote:
> well, i think that today there's no distinction between " grass user" 
> and "grass specialist"
> but if we have a growing open gis/software community then this 
> distinction wil appear ..if not, grass will remain a software used by a 
> little highly specialized elite of researchers...
> so,  i think that what we are discussing here is very natural in this 
> context of increasing use of open gis...
> 
> 
> 
>> From: Paul Kelly <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk>
>> To: samuel cavalcante <grassmanbr at hotmail.com>
>> CC: grasslist at baylor.edu
>> Subject: Re: [GRASSLIST:2779] mailing list for beginners
>> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 14:42:57 +0000
>>
>>
>>
>> samuel cavalcante wrote:
>> >
>> [...]
>> > why not create a beginners mailing list?
>> > i am expending some weeks trying to run nviz but i always 
>> fail...(so, maybe
>> > it must be writen a "grass for dummies" for people like me...)...the 
>> error
>> > mesages are driving me insane (laughs)...
>>
>> Difficulties in running NVIZ are not a simple beginner's problem. It is
>> probably not your fault and likely some complex bug. There is often not
>> a simple answer and there is a good chance that the only way you will
>> get NVIZ running well on your system is to become an expert programmer
>> and debug it yourself!
> 
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